From February 5 to 9, 2024, the 14th International Congress of Higher Education University 2024 will take place at the s Palace in Havana, Cuba. This event, which has been organized since 1998, on this occasion will have as its central theme “Higher education of the future: social transformation, quality, relevance and sustainability” and will have two formats: in-person and virtual.
This Congress is an important meeting with high international participation. During the XII edition, University 2020, shortly before the Covid-19 restrictions, more than 2,000 delegates attended, out of them, 1,300 foreigners from 52 countries, including 200 university Rectors, Ministers and other senior managers in the sector.
More than 1,600 delegates and senior university leaders from 35 countries on all continents attended University 2022, held in the midst of the pandemic, with the largest delegations being those from Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Ecuador, El Salvador and Colombia.
In that last edition in 2022, nearly 5,000 papers were received, of which about 1,800 were selected to be presented in the different modalities of the event, of which more than 200 belong to foreigners from about 20 countries.
To attend this Congress is also an opportunity to exchange or interact with Cuban universities, of which 4 institutions are among the 1,300 most prestigious in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings 2022 by the British firm Quacquarelli Symonds, which evaluates 3,000 universities every year and considers approximately 9,000 in the world, ordering them according to criteria such as academic reputation and the number of visits in the last 12 months.
Heading the list of the QS World University Rankings for Cuba is the University of Havana, the oldest in the island (1728), which is again among the 500 best, in 467th place, according to www.topuniversities.com. It is followed by the Universidad Central Marta Abreu (UCV), in Las Villas, between positions 531 and 540 in that ranking, and the Universidad de Oriente, in Santiago de Cuba, classified in positions between 801 and 1000, while the Technological University of Havana José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), was rankied between place 1,201 and 1,400.
The presentation of UNIVERSITY 2024 papers will be organized around seven symposiums, in which Workshops and special Activities are grouped and among the main activities of the scientific program, there will be a Forum of Ministers and Authorities of Higher Education, a Forum “Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and another Forum “Knowledge, innovation and sustainable territorial development”.
For more information, registration for the event, presentation of papers, etc., you should consult the website https://www.congresouniversidad.cu or contact the Executive Secretariat of the Congress by email: secejecutiva@congresouniversidad.cu
For accommodation packages, you must contact the Havanatur S.A. Travel Agency, at the email: eventos@havanatur.cu